Movietime July 12

This week, the history of the vibrator. Along with the sewing machine, the electrical vibrator was one of the earliest electrical appliances to be marketed for home use. In Hysteria, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as a young suffragist and Hugh Dancy as Docter Mortimer Saville who develops RSI when he is employed to assist a Harley St physician to massage female patients suffering ‘hysteria’ caused by ‘pelvic congestion’. Julie Rigg interviews director Tanya Wexler, and Jason Di Rosso speaks with Perth Revelation Film Festival director Jack Sargeant about a retrospective on the late British video artist Jeff Keen.

This week's Trash and Treasure segment looks at the work of the late British underground filmmaker Jeff Keen, the subject of a retrospective at this week’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival.